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No pun intended.

What is wrong with people, though? Think Progress is reporting that some lunatic teabagger called in to C-Span this morning, fretting that his fervent prayers for Senator Byrd’s death had resulted in the incapacitation of GOP Senator Inhofe instead. No… no, really, I’m not kidding. The dude was practically in tears. Watch it below (really watch it — you will be stymied, and it’s barely a minute long):

Transcript of caller’s remarks (thanks, Blasky):

Our small Tea Bag group here in Waycroft, we… we got our vigil together and took Dr. Coburn’s instructions and prayed real hard that Senator Byrd that he would die and couldn’t show up at the vote the other night.  How hard did you pray because I see one of our members is missing this morning.  Did it backfire on us [begins crying] and one of our members die?  How hard did you pray Senator, did you pray hard enough?


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  2. Chris Blask

    Crooks and Liars has the FOX-sponsored cover for Sen Coburn, but the fact at least one group got together and “took Dr. Coburn’s instructions and prayed real hard that Senator Byrd that he would die” shows that if he didn’t intend his comment to be read that way then he is simply an incompetent leader.

    The transcript of the call, for those who want to experience the pure malice:

    Our small Tea Bag group here in Waycroft we got our vigil together and took Dr. Coburn’s instructions and prayed real hard that Senator Byrd that he would die and couldn’t show up at the vote the other night.  How hard did you pray because I see one of our members is missing this morning.  Did it backfire on us (begins crying) and one of our members die?  How hard did you pray Senator, did you pray hard enough?

  3. creamer

    I’ve been busy, have they?

    I;m stunned that Brasso didn’t find a need to disavow or at least try to spin it. He looked kind of blank, does he always look like that?

  4. HappyinVT

    that make me seriously concerned about what Beck, Savage, Limbaugh, etc. spout off about.  I truly don’t think Coburn wished Sen. Byrd or anyone else any physical harm but he should have realized that his words could be misconstrued after he said them.  I did accidentally click on a Fox News link of an interview Coburn did with van Susteren and he neither tried to clarify his meaning or give that non-apology apology.  Somehow he turned it into the Dem’s choosing to focus on his words not their own crappy bill.

    And Barrasso could have quite easily set the guy straight but, for whatever reason, chose not to.

  5. canadian gal

    first, couldn’t really understand a word the caller was saying. second – a sitting politician didn’t bat an eyelash when someone called for the death of another human, let alone a colleague?

  6. John Allen

    The local paper printed my LTE today. I was hoping it would be in Sunday’s paper, but this will have to do. The very first comment made me laugh.

    My question is not for Mr. Allen, but the Flint Journal: Why post this opinion? It is nothing more than Left-Wing Liberal Talking Points, which can be read/heard/watched through any of the main-stream media sources of misinformation.

    These letters don’t usually get a lot of comments.I could use a little support if you have the time.

    http://www.mlive.com/opinion/f…

  7. sricki

    but this has been nagging at me since I heard the clip. I actually feel kinda bad for the caller. I mean, the guy is crying. He just strikes me as some horribly ignorant moran who believed what a sick asshole politician told him. Probably thought he could save millions of lives by voting for Senator Byrd to die because if would prevent the Democrats’ eeeeeeeeeeeevil health care bill from getting passed. And he’s so upset — why exactly, I don’t know. Maybe because he just thinks he hurt a good fella (Inhofe), or maybe he thinks god is mad at him for being wrong. I don’t know. But the man is genuinely distressed, and the whole thing just strikes me as rather pitiful and sad.

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